The poet Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852) composed many poems and songs. One of his most famous works is "The Meeting of the Waters". To honor him, a statue was erected in College Street in Dublin. That there once was a public toilet below this statue, is not really flattering.

Another famous writer, James Joyce (1882 - 1941), had Leopold Bloom, the main character in his novel Ulysses, pass the statue and muse on it:

He crossed under Tommy Moore's roguish finger. They did right to put him up over a urinal: meeting of the waters.